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Abstract:

The Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891, to which, at the
request of the President and Council, I have the honour to invite the
society's attention, is an important measure affecting the transfer of
land in Ireland. Four years ago it was my privilege to lay before the
society an analysis of a cognate measure, the Registration of Assurances
Bill, by the same author, then Attorney-General, now Mr.
Justice Madden. That bill did not become law, but it is necessary
to refer to it in connection with this Act, as they are complementary
of each other, and though mutually exclusive in their operation,
combined they represent the policy of their author on the subject of
land transfer.